In Haruki Murakami book 1Q84 mechanical elves bridge the gap between two realities by entering through a goat's mouth. These mechanical elves act as fixers or cleaners that arbitrate a reality similar to ours, with a reality that is slightly different. In a subplot the mechanical elves show up in a book authored by teenage girl within the text. The interdimensional non state actors are also artifacts of imagination of the novel’s antagonist The Leader who has a strange muscular illness that requires constant massages. As the books title suggests the parallel realities share Orwell’s year of the authoritarian.
We are not aware of any non-state actors that exist on this planet or in the solar system but we don’t know that is a fact. We assume that the state, especially our state, is the highest order of authority. Yet, the state department has just announced that Havana syndrome will be covered and compensated for while no foreign aggression has been found. The reasoning could be the caliber of the diplomatic corps that are affected by the Havana syndrome. It’s much harder for enlisted soldiers to get compensation than state department employees.
In 2017 when the government released videos of the gimbal and TicTac that’s a kind of dubious disclosure. It can be interpreted as a throwing up of arms in admission to a nonstate actor as well. ‘There’s someone or something operating here that is unknown to us.’ History, as we know it, is the history of governments. That framing ignores the sequences of accidents that make histories happen.
In a circulating interview on the Full Send Podcast with Tucker, Carlson, he States that he was contacted by a doctor, trying to get compensation for veterans who have had experiences with UAPs. I don’t wanna say that it’s been easy with Havana syndrome because they’ve had their own journey. There is a similarity in attributing causation. My experiences in New York made me think of Havana syndrome. Some of the experiences of sufferers mirror strange neurological experiences I had in NYC. I had no reason to believe someone was pointing a weapon at me. I will tell you about it, but first I must inform you that your government dropped the ball on swine flu. If it seems that there’s an overreaction with Covid, it’s because its widely known reaction to swine flu was insufficient.
And I got the swine flu while being the first class of veterans to use the post 9/11, G.I., Bill in New York. The G.I. Bill had changed as election bingo to get Barack Obama elected president. The Montgomery G.I. bill had been insufficient for decades. The disease changed me and lingered just like Covid does but also led up to me having the most profound experience of my life. I have found that being sick is a kind of augmented reality. Swine flu had subtly changed my consciousness by manifesting a sheen or patina that embodied the way I looked at the world as a child. Reality seemed more magical than then survival mode I had been living in. I had varied neurological symptoms but also auras like an epileptic.
I was watching a documentary narrated by Richard Gere about the life of Buddha when it was over, I walked downstairs. The journey down the stairs stretched my time and suddenly I felt like I was in contact with other versions of myself. And I can tell if the other versions of myself were also aware of me at that moment and we laughed together. I walked outside in my backyard, where I was planting vegetables, haphazardly in a raised bed. The sudden crispness of reality made my garden seem more primordial and lush. All of the new age tropes were there but I had been raised in Polish Communist Catholicism. I was drawing parabolic allusions. Jonah when he refused his destiny like Oedipus was swallowed by a large fish. I understood him I too was inside of a reality that evidently was just as alive as the leviathan. Then I felt that I was transported across the universe while fully aware that my mind was just accessing science shows that I had seen. With a flash I was back in my backyard in Astoria Queens but communing with a late paleolithic ancestor that claimed to be Abraham. For the next month I was reading several books a day. The Cal State system was very STEM heavy – it wasn’t until I was in NYC that I really discovered that there were other theories on the nature of reality. I was fortunate enough to be studying literature at this time which gives you some perspective on phenomenon.
For a month after May 20th 2010 I was more aware then I had ever been. I felt that I had access to some sort of human internet that gave me answers to any question like a jin. I have encountered people who make this claim to access most of whom have schizophrenia. In this mode everything is connected, actionable, and full of optimism. Instead of honoring an impulse to put on a toga — evangelizing on NYC city streets — I participated in Occupy Wall Street. I was pretty arbitrary politically before this experience but I had a very instantaneous drastic personality change. There is a legacy of radicalization that I write about here. History is riddled with drastic personality changes some like spontaneous combustion have no causal root. Some happen to leaders who changed history and may happen because unforeseen illness.
When a worldwide pandemic started, the first thing I found myself researching — were viruses, another kind of life. I have been so profoundly changed by the swine flu. Here we were in the middle of a pandemic and I couldn’t help but to think of the culmination of experiences I had up to that point. Most Americans don’t know that the swine flu was a pandemic. Having had both swine flu and covid I can tell you that the swine flu was far more dire. The absence of panic around it did not match the impact of the disease. I am still dealing with some of the long term effects. Cross Species transmission of Zoonotic diseases are a brush with a new kind of life that didn’t exist before. As an amateur mycologist I can tell you that new species are discovered all the time. The pathogens that cross species specialization are also the ones that phenomenologically change us profoundly: rabies, SARS, HIV, Swine Flu, COVID.
“According to two papers published in the journal Cell in January, long ago, a virus bound its genetic code to the genome of four-limbed animals. That snippet of code is still very much alive in humans' brains today, where it does the very viral task of packaging up genetic information and sending it from nerve cells to their neighbors in little capsules that look a whole lot like viruses themselves. And these little packages of information might be critical elements of how nerves communicate and reorganize over time — tasks thought to be necessary for higher-order thinking, the researchers said.”
Havana syndrome is either a weaponized disease or a natural phenomenon. The people who have been affected by the illness claim that it was some sort of weapon. This is why the phenomenon was grouped with a red scare against Russia and China I think. But we have also started to strongly suspect a nonstate actor with UAPs. The Mayo clinic describes complications from swine flu: “Neurological signs and symptoms, ranging from confusion to seizures”. COVID survivors are showing the same brain image results on MRIs as traumatic brain injury TBI.
Phenomenologically all sickness and disability act as a kind of augmented reality. There are things that I will say on the street to people but not write here. The book Guns Germs and Steel was turned into a TV series at some point – it was required reading on college campuses. As far as I know there have never been flus that augmented reality the way that swine flu and covid have – on a subjective and macro level. I ran across an article in the New York Times around the time swine flu descended that they had discovered a parasite that causes schizophrenia by 2014 it was widely accepted that protozoan parasite, toxoplasma gondii, a cat parasite has been linked with a range of psychiatric conditions in humans. The nominal atomic fact is that it can happen and thus we misunderstood the causal relationship with mental disease and environmental factors.
I too threw up my arms, culling of minks was one the first stories to come out of Covid era. I heard in China they were euthanizing cats around omicron. Havana syndrome doesn’t have a zoonotic antecedent yet. Cats aren’t conspiring against us (I am pretty sure) but there is a mystery afoot. I recoil with the mantra that our science is at a nascent stage and any phenomenon has an explanation. When I heard about some of the symptoms of Havana syndrome they were reminiscent of a perceived download I was having in NYC.